Arabic vocabulary
إِلَهgod in Arabic
إِلَه is how you say “god” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
الله أكبر الله أكبر أشهد أَن لَا إِلَه إِلَّا الله أشهد أَن مُحَمَّدًا رَسُول الله
(Allah is the Greatest; Allah is the Greatest. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.)
إِلَهَ — god. 'god', locked in the accusative by the absolute 'la' — 'no god whatsoever'. The 'la plus bare accusative' is the most total negation.
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